Saturday, 15 December 2012

This week's fifties-fuelled festivities

Evening, all! Today I "waitressed" for a youth club Christmas dinner (and sat down for a delicious meal, too!), so decided to go for a fifties theme. Everything is from a charity shop, apart from the apron, cardigan and shoes.

I hadn't realised how well the green cardigan goes with my pink skirt! I bought the skirt about two years ago from a charity shop in Egham and took the waist in to make it a little more fifties in shape.

A closer look at my hair. I used large rollers to get the shape, but as I only had them in for an hour or so, the curls are a lot more deflated here than they were at the beginning of the night!

I came back from a trip round the charity shops with this bag, which was £4. It is perfect for day-to-day use when I am carrying a book around with me, as my other vintage bags are far too small to accommodate anything other than my purse and phone!

Earlier on this week, I went to university channelling one of my favourite characters from the BBC's '50s newsroom drama 'The Hour' - Lix Storm.

Yesterday was the end of term at university and I went to a party at "Commie Towers", where some of my (leftie) friends live. The festivities went on until 7am, and when the power cut off at 5, they were not deterred. I was, at this time, upstairs and trying to sleep. I felt a little nostalgic for the '40s as there was so much cigarette smoke inside, everything was in a haze... the downside of this being the smell of all of my clothes, which were promptly put into the wash as soon as I got back home.

I must say, I'm always a little excited to find another vintage blogger who smokes, or at least doesn't hide the fact on their blog!I know it's insanely bad for you and shouldn't be promoted, but you would think more vintage enthusiasts would be smokers... But they're not and then I feel like the naughty one smoking behind the bike sheds. So it's good to see its not just me!Love your blog girl! X